A total of 130 migrants of Syrian origin seeking seasonal work in the Seydikemer district of Turkey’s Aegean province of Muğla have been found in the woods and sent to neighboring Antalya province under gendarmerie watch.

Turkish writer Levent Gültekin embraced Islam at the age of 13 and put his heart and soul into “the cause” for 30 years. After serving as an executive at pro-Justice and Development Party (AKP) media outlets Yeni Şafak, Star and Cine 5, Gültekin is now deeply disillusioned with political Islam

Two relatives who grew up in the same neighborhood – one a soldier killed in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the other a PKK militant killed in an operation elsewhere – have been laid to rest alongside each other in the eastern province of Erzurum